Newswire: Feb 15, 2026 3:58 PM EST

Highlights:

• a2 Milk raised its full-year revenue guidance after first-half earnings beat expectations, driven by strengthening infant-formula sales in China. Bloomberg Markets

• Bond traders are eyeing this week's private-payrolls data and equity-market direction to gauge whether the recent Treasury rally can be sustained. Bloomberg Markets

• Warner Bros. Discovery is considering reopening sale negotiations with Paramount Skydance after receiving an amended hostile offer, according to people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg Technology

• Hungary has asked Croatia to permit Russian crude shipments through the Adriatic pipeline while the usual Ukraine transit route remains blocked. Bloomberg Markets

• California gasoline supply: U.S. fuel is being exported and routed thousands of miles through the Bahamas before reaching California, which is grappling with declining refining capacity and elevated pump prices. Bloomberg Markets

• AI & labor markets: MIT's David Autor and Stanford's Erik Brynjolfsson discuss how AI's impact on wages and inequality depends on which tasks get automated and who captures the productivity gains. Bloomberg Markets

• Options exchanges are pushing to overhaul a decades-old regulatory-fee model that currently lets exchanges collect fees on trades executed at rival venues. Bloomberg Markets

• AI stock sell-off: A widening "doom loop" is dragging down equities across the AI supply chain as two increasingly contradictory fears collide in the market. Bloomberg Markets

• EM currencies are exhibiting greater stability than G-7 peers, buoyed by carry-trade appeal and commodity exposure, in what some investors say could become the longest such streak in over 20 years. Bloomberg Markets

• U.S. bus procurement: Harvard's Ed Glaeser argues that highly customized orders and limited competition are driving up costs for public-transit agencies, with federal funding rules further shaping purchasing decisions. Bloomberg Markets